Slip casting

forming

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Stages in the slip casting of a thin-walled whiteware container. Clay powder is mixed in water together with a dispersing agent, which keeps the clay particles suspended evenly throughout the clay-water slurry, or slip. The slip is poured into a plaster mold, where water is drawn out by capillary action and a cast is formed by the deposition of clay particles on the inner surfaces of the mold. The remaining slip is drained, and the cast is allowed to dry partially before the drain hole is plugged and the mold separated. The unfinished ware is given a final drying in an oven before it is fired into a finished product.Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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ceramics technology

A different approach to the forming of clay-based ceramics is taken in slip casting of whiteware, as shown in Figure 1. As mentioned above, with sufficient water content and the addition of suitable dispersing agents, clay-water mixtures can be made into suspensions called…

modeling technique

Slip casting is primarily a potter’s technique that can be used for repetition casting of small pottery sculptures. Liquid clay, or slip, is poured into a plaster piece mold. Some of the water in the slip is absorbed by the plaster and a layer of…

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